Praktik cuci tangan merupakan faktor kunci dalam menurunkan dan mencegah
infeksi terkait pelayanan kesehatan. Masih rendahnya praktik cuci tangan di
kalangan petugas kesehatan menyebabkan angka infeksi di rumah sakit masih
cukup tinggi. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengidentifikasi elemen yang menjadi
penyebab masih rendahnya praktik cuci tangan enam langkah melalui pendekatan
elemen strategi implementasi multimodal WHO di RS Islam Siti Khadijah.
Digunakan desain cross sectional dengan pendekatan kuantitatif dilanjutkan
pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan praktik cuci tangan enam
langkah baik (61,9% ) dan ketersediaan air dan sabun merupakan faktor yang
paling dominan berkontribusi terhadap pelaksanaan praktik cuci tangan enam
langkah
Hand washing practice is key factor to decrease and prevent of health-careassosiated infections. Poor of hand washing practice among healthcare workerscausing hospital infection rates are still high. This study aimed to identify theelements that cause the low six-step of hand washing practice through the elementof WHO multimodal strategy implementation approach in Siti Khadijah IslamicHospital, Palembang in 2016. The design was cross-sectional, used quantitativeapproach, continued by qualitative approach. The results showed that the six-stepof hand-washing practice was good (61.9%) and availability of water and soap tobe the most dominant factor contributed to the implementation of six steps ofhand washing practice